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The Future Metaverse: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Roundtable of the Mobile World Congress 2023. The Metaverse Future: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Please note, the ...
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DFS Voices: Why should the Indian platform economy keep a gender disaggregated track of data, with Aditi Surie
Aditi Surie is a sociologist at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), a ...
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DFS Voices: Being a woman and running an online business in Kenya, with Nasubo Ongoma
Experimental designer Nasubo Ongoma works at Qhala and is interested in surfacing insights that ...
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#DFSDialogues – Technology and education, the antidote to disinformation
In this #DFSDialogues, Digital Future Society’s director Cristina Colom discusses the significance of access to ...
Global Perspectives on Women, Work and Digital Labour Platforms
Gender inequalities in the platform economy Real experiencies of women on online labour ...
The number of digital labour platforms has multiplied by five between 2010 and 2020
Our latest publication “Global Perspectives on Women, Work and Digital Labour Platforms” provides insights into ...
Report in 2 minutes: The rise of home care digital platforms
El auge de las plataformas digitales en el sector de la atención domiciliaria
Report in 2 minutes: Principles of gender equality that should be considered.
No real wellbeing is possible for women without the achievement of gender equality. The four ...
DFS Voices: How to ensure a universal access to a digitized labor market, with Dessirée Garcia
“The labor market is a round and the laws, a square” Dessirée Garcia is Head ...
DFS Voices: Technology and innovation at the service of diversity in Barcelona with Lluis Torrens
“We will do society a disservice if we keep the physical as a universal right” ...
Report in 2 minutes: The risks of the digital emergency.
What can we do to minimise the risks of the digital emergency.
In the news: The Russian -Ukraine confilct developed a new form of hybrid warfare.
Wellcome to the world’s first TikTok war. The Russian -Ukraine confilct is being waged in the ...
DFS Voices “We need a feminist and intersectional perspective to improve inequalities”, with Àtia Cortés
Interview with Àtia Cortés, postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, about developing inclusive research ...
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DFS Voices “If we don’t act urgently, we will not see gender equality for another 136 years”, with Anita Bhatia.
Interview with Anita Bhatia, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Womens Deputy Executive Director, about Closing ...
Privacy by Design
Definition: Privacy by Design The idea that data processing procedures should already integrate data protection ...
Secret Sound: music made available
Esther Pina is the CEO and Founder of Secret Sound, a start-up devoted to making ...
Data broker
Definition: Data Broker Any kind of entity that collects, aggregates, and sells individuals’ personal data, ...
In the news: Creating more inclusive reality goes beyond the physical world
In The News we talk about inclusivity in the metaverse and the importance of diversity ...
Media literacy
Definition: Media literacy An educational approach that provides a framework to access, analyse, evaluate, create, ...
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Decentralized Cloud Glossary
Definition: Decentralized Cloud A network of multiple connected devices that stores anonymised data and information. ...
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8M Special: Algorithmic Gender Discrimination
Algorithmic gender bias is a reflection of the world we live in. The Mobile Gender Gap ...
Deconstructing Disinformation – DFS at the MWC Barcelona 2022
As the leading programme to debate the ethical implications of digitalization in society, Digital Future ...
In the news: Creating a safe digital world
The European Commission has proposed a declaration of Digital Rights and principles to the European ...
DFS Voices: “New technologies have a huge potential for people with disabilities”, with Carlos Rios
Interview with Carlos Ríos Espinosa, Senior Researcher and Advocate, Disability Rights Division at Human Rights ...
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ADMS Glossary
Definition: Automated decision-making systems (ADMS) Systems that use automated reasoning to aid or replace a ...
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DFS Voices – About 2021, 2022 and what’s to come in digital humanism, with Carina Lopes
We interview Carina Lopes. head of the Digital Future Society think-tank. With solid international experience ...
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The challenges of 2022 – what to expect
Even though 2020 is still in our minds, we’re approaching 2022, a new year with ...
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Headlines of 2021 – a year of change
2021 has been challenging, full of uncertainty and difficult moments, but not everything was bad. For the first time, 193 countries ...
Highlights – Humanism in the digital age: the urban contribution
#BCNDigitalHumanism Highlights of the event, with Anne Kaun, Morten Meyerhoff, Brando Benifei and Sonia Jorge ...
DFS Voices – The Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas. Winner of Tech Against Disinformation
Symeon Papadopoulos, researcher at The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), founded in 2000, is ...
DFS Voices – Polytechnic University of Madrid, winner of Tech Against Disinformation
We interview Alejandro Martín, Assistant Professor at the Computing Systems Department of the Polytechnic University ...
The future of cities: The evolving digital city
The 21st century is going to be the age of cities. More than half of ...
DFS Voices: Ethics need to be embedded in technology, and are essential with AI
Iván Caballero is the CEO and founder of Citibeats Since January 2018, Iván Caballero has ...
DFS Voices: Mobile data to model and aggregate human behaviour.
Nuria Oliver is a computer scientist. She holds a Ph.D. from the Media Lab at ...
DFS Voices: Digitalization to make tourism more sustainable
Tiffany Misrahi. VicePresident of Policy and Research at World Travel and Tourism Council Misrahi is the Vice-President of Policy at WTTC where she is responsible for ...
Report in 2 minutes: Gender bias in data
Our report Gender bias in data: Towards gender equality in digital welfare in under two ...
Report in 2 minutes: Emerging tech
Our report Policy brief: emerging technologies, a lever to tackle urban challenges in the climate ...
Report in 2 minutes: Platform-to-business regulation
Our report Platform-to-business regulation under two minutes. With online platforms playing a key role, the ...
Report in 2 minutes: Governing Algorithms
Our report Governing algorithms in under two minutes. AI could well have been nominated Person of ...
DFSVoices: Fact-checking: Disinformation vs democracy
We talk with Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, senior assistant Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum, at the Università ...
DFSVoices: What do we know about data ownership?
Anne Flanagan is a data policy and governance lead expert at the Centre for the ...
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How has Amazon become a megaphone for anti-vaccine activists?
Find out how Amazon’s algorithms are mistakenly allowing for the spread of conspiracy theories.
Fight against disinformation
Interview with Cristina Tardáguila, journalist and founder of Agência Lupa, the main platform to combat ...
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Are you interested in helping solve the spread of disinformation?
Learn more about the DFS open call for technology-based solutions to combat disinformation and submit your ...
How is technology perpetuating old power relations?
Is the era of mass-consumption and production seeing its own end? Do we need a ...
How can technology be used to help prevent disinformation?
Find out how organisations are using technology to help limit the spread of disinformation.
Protecting ourselves against cyber attacks
Have you ever been the victim of a cyber attack? Find out how we can ...
Sustainable Tourism v1
Digital tools can make Sustainable Tourism a reality. New technologies allow tourists to reach less ...
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Have you ever been the victim of a cyber attack?
Find out how we can protect ourselves from cyberattacks as the world becomes more and ...
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How can supercomputing solve real problems?, with Mateo Valero, Director of the BSC-CNS
What are supercomputers? And how are they solving real problems? Mateo Valero is Director of ...
Is Revolution 4.0 democratising the stock market?
Find out how trading is becoming increasingly accessible due to new and more sophisticated finance ...
Tech Against Disinformation – technology against Fake News
In collaboration with Agencia EFE, Newtral, VerifiCat and CCMA
It’s not too late to learn to deal with hyperconnectivity
Cutting down on screen-time can help improve sleep and reduce stress leading to a better ...
Should SMEs fear Amazon so much?
Is Amazon a threat to small and medium sized enterprises or can the benefits of ...
What opportunities does the P2B regulation offer SMEs?, with Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell
Teresa Rodríguez is a professor of commercial law and member of the Expert Group at ...
How can SMEs maximise the opportunities presented by the P2B regulation?
The EU attempts to mitigate the risks posed by the platform economy with it’s new ...
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P2B regulation: Ensuring equitable growth for platforms and SMEs
As online platforms become central in the global digital transition, how can policymakers avoid unfair ...
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Automated vehicles and urban mobility with Rene Millman
Rene Millman is a freelance tech writer and broadcaster. Learn more about the future of ...
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Worker’s rights in the gig economy with Jeremias Adams-Prassl, professor of Law at Oxford
Jeremias Adams-Prassl is a professor of Law and researcher at Magdalen College, Oxford University. His ...
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The Digital Cold War
What is the ‘digital cold war’ and why is it relevant to understanding global political ...
Trump, QAnon & the Capitol riot: the radical right responds to censorship
Is removing radical actors from social media contributing to the mobilization of the radical right?
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Digital Africa
Head of Digital Infrastructure and Capacity building at the Smart Africa Secretariat, Thelma Quaye, shares ...
Free speech for all, or only for a few?
What happens to political activism when free speech is repressed?
How has social media affected political activism?
As political discourse grows more toxic and heated, what is the risk of online activism ...
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Digital transformation for all
Kate Wilson is the CEO of Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), a “think, do, replicate” tank ...
AI: Science Fiction VS Reality
Professor of Ethics and Technology at Hertie School (Berlin), Joanna Bryson, gives her take on ...
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How can we include women in the platform economy narratives?
In the platform economy, women continue to be excluded from the mainstream narratives while the ...
Who is Big Brother?
Interview with Jennifer Kite-Powell, author, poet and senior tech contributor at Forbes. She is one ...
How should we establish our digital rights?
Interview with Gerd Leonhard, Humanist, Futurist, author of bestselling book ‘Technology vs. Humanity’ and CEO ...
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Do you know what skills you will need for the future of work?
Interview with Andrés Miguel Rondón, Economist, Political Advisor and General Secretary at SEGIB, on the ...
How can we find a balance between innovation and ethics?
GPT-3 Bot, the robot developed to have conversations about politics. What happened when this breakthrough ...
Does Facebook hold a monopoly of power?
The growth of Facebook has meant that tech giants are becoming the biggest companies in ...
Trump, twitter and the spread of disinformation.
During election time it is important we stay vigilant and combat the spread of misleading ...
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How many times a day are your digital rights being violated?
Emails from companies you’ve never contacted, use of facial recognition for ad targeting, permanent surveillance… ...
Putting long term care on the top of the agenda
Interview with Borja Arrue, responsible for long-term care work policies at Age Platform Europe, a ...
2020 Noble Prize and medical technology
The winners of the 2020 Noble Prize in Medicine demonstrated the vast potential of gene-editing ...
DFS Voices: Who’s in charge of moderating Instagram’s content?
Interview with Janine Berg, Senior Economist at International Labour Organization, on outsourced microtasking platforms, the ...
Right to be forgotten
The right to be forgotten is the right to have private information removed from Internet ...
Right to honor, privacy and self-image
Covid-19 increased children’s online exposure, but do we know their digital rights?
Could Lifted be the Apple of platform care?
Lifted plans to use AI-based analytics to predict and prevent health deterioration and seeks to ...
How can tech help us improve elderly care post Covid?
In Europe, digital home-care platforms are on the rise. Could this be the answer to ...
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How can technology improve the lives of the elderly?
How can we ensure tech facilitates elderly lives rather than leaving seniors feeling disconnected?
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DFS Voices: Can we use mobile data to identify or predict poverty?
DFSVoices with Kam Morshed, Senior Director for Advocacy, Innovation and Migration at BRAC, on how ...
DFS Voices: Can we manipulate the brain through neuro circuits?
DFS Voices with Rafael Yuste, professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University and ideologist of ...
DFS Voices: What do we know of platform work in Spain?
We spoke with Olivia Blanchard, researcher at Digital Future Society Think Tank and author of: ...
DFS Voices: Can technology revolutionize our care systems?
We spoke with Oriol Fuertes, CEO at QIDA, a rapidly growing care startup for elderly ...
How is AI helping scientists understand COVID-19?
AI first predicted the pandemic and is now playing an important role in helping scientists ...
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DFS Voices: How has social media impacted political campaigning?
We spoke with Laura Manley, the Director of the Technology and Public Purpose Project at the ...
DFS Voices: Can algorithms be inclusive?
Itziar Pobes, one of the brains behind We Question, a service design studio in Barcelona, ...
DFS Voices: What are the benefits of a digitised government that prioritizes gender analysis?
We speak with Christiaan Van Veen, Director of the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights ...
DFS Voices: How has Covid19 changed the way we learn and educate?
Julio Cabero Almenara, professor of Didactics and School Organization at the University of Seville, radiographs ...
Can we help climate change by recycling our old gadgets?
E-waste is on the rise and significantly damaging our environment. How can we change the ...
How is technology impacting the environment?
The use of advanced technology is increasing, but at what environmental cost? Tech such as ...
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DFS Voices: Data Privacy in a Global Pandemic
Michael Kearns, Professor of Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania, shares his thoughts on how ...
DFS Voices: The Digital Gender Gap
Director of Telecommunication Development Bureau at International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Doreen Bogdan-Martin, talks about how ...
How can AI help fight the climate emergency?
AI has helped progress agriculture and healthcare. How can we make sure that the benefits ...
Digital Transition: how can we adapt?
Less access to goods and services means people are rethinking consumption, buying in terms of ...
Has the pandemic changed our relationship with technology?
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, technology has played a significant role in the lives ...
How can we adapt to the changing digital world?
The pandemic has created huge digital transformations. How can we ensure a sustainable and inclusive ...
Is the pandemic creating opportunities for a better future?
How is the pandemic encouraging a more sustainable and positive future?
Digital Emergency: Is technology rendering us useless?
Businesses and governments must digitize their services and renew their workflow to empower new business ...
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Digital Emergency: Is COVID an excuse to track you?
With contact tracing technology, such as the API made by Apple and Google, public-health officials ...
Digital Emergency: Is it too late?
In a tech-savvy world, it’s easy to forget that both professionals and students often struggle ...
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Digital Emergency: Is the future of governments digital?
Technology moves fast and many companies and professionals are being left behind. In order to ...
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Disinformation: Will these alliances censor you?
Big tech has claimed that they are taking COVID-related misinformation seriously. In recent months, political ...
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Disinformation: Will big tech censor your opinion?
Over the last few months, social media companies have taken several policy measures to try ...
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Disinformation: Is it your responsibility?
Media literacy is now a major priority for governments and organisations worldwide. The digital media ...
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Disinformation: More than fake news?
While disinformation is not new, the methods, strategies and technologies for its success have evolved ...
COVID-19: Digital divide in education?
About a third of students in developed countries are having problems coping with education due ...
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¿Cómo afectará tu futuro laboral el COVID?, una entrevista con David Muñoz
Entrevistamos a David Muñoz, sociólogo, profesor e investigador en la Universidad de Valencia, donde imparte ...
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COVID-19: Is surveillance the only way?
Both governments and corporations have been gradually using more sophisticated technologies to track, monitor and, ...
How is technology helping to fight the effects of COVID-19?
The spread of COVID-19 has encouraged the development of new technology both in our health ...
COVID-19: Crowdsourcing solutions?
Prototyping and 3D-printing, insights generation for healthcare workers, developing medical equipment and free virtual therapy. ...
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COVID-19: Consuming information responsibly?
Coronavirus has ramped up the battle against misinformation. False claims and conspiracy theories are possibly ...
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COVID-19: Mitigating disinformation?
When communication is inadequate, public trust and confidence tend to weaken. During the coronavirus crisis, ...
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COVID-19: Tracking the spread?
Data gathering technologies are essential for saving lives during the current pandemic. However, doing so ...
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COVID-19: Is it time to adopt open data?
The speed of the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a shortage of essential medical supplies, ...
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COVID-19: Addressing public policies?
As fear grows, the current COVID-19 pandemic is also seeing a growth in the spread ...
COVID-19: Adapting to a new future?
In the US, policymakers agreed to cut interest rates a full point back to near ...
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How can we control fake news during COVID-19?
As countries went into lockdown, fear and misleading information about the virus spread. How can ...
COVID-19: A spotlight for digital inclusion?
“One thing is clear, we’re seeing mass digitalization of human relations with the crisis, and ...
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Data Privacy & Monetisation: Digitisation of privacy rights?
The surveillance economy continues to spread worldwide, even as consumers are less aware of its ...
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Data Privacy & Monetisation: The rise of a new business model?
The right to be forgotten is at the center of a debate about privacy and ...
Digital Gender Gap: A gender-equality paradox?
UNESCO research on the ICT gender equality paradox gave a spotlight to one of the ...
Digital Gender Gap: What is the root of the gender divide?
The progress of our society has been boosted by the incorporation of tech and innovation ...
How to tackle the 3 root causes of the digital gender divide?
How can we empower women and address discrimination in the digital age?
E-Health: A ‘smart’ healthcare bet?
UK’s National Health Service is bringing a futuristic approach to free up staff, increase efficiency ...
Digital Gender Gap: Is the Internet inclusive?
The root causes of the digital gender gap are often opaque and difficult to address. ...
How can we include women for a more inclusive Internet?
Women continue to be excluded from the Internet and technology with the majority of its ...
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How will digitalisation affect the gender gap in the workplace?
Why do we need to address the digital gender gap? How can we ensure that ...
Digital Gender Gap: Bridging the digital divide?
Digital platforms are becoming much more relevant to our economy. We have reached a point ...
What are the benefits of big tech for the healthcare sector?
How will the introduction of big tech help the future of our healthcare systems? ...
E-Health: Big tech entering healthcare?
The integration of AI into primary healthcare is becoming more common and is offering health ...
Education: Is Alexa your next teacher?
Who would have thought that Alexa had more utilities than asking her to play some ...
Education: Technology to the rescue?
Did you know that more than 380 million children worldwide finish their primary education without ...
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How will AI work in the medical world?
AI and accountability in our health care systems. Who will hold responsibility if something goes ...
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What does the future for medical professionals look like?
Technology and AI are revolutionising the medical world. How will our healthcare systems adapt?
E-Health: Will healthcare change forever?
Accuracy in diagnosis, collaboration between specialists, new treatments and drugs. We are enhancing the medical ...
Education: Is tech disrupting our classrooms?
Technology is jumpstarting a much-needed change in education. It offers several advantages such as more ...
Education: The end of traditional education?
Technology is transforming the way we teach. Inclusiveness and personalisation are some of the potential ...
Education: The end of traditional education?
Technology is transforming the way we teach. Inclusiveness and personalisation are some of the potential ...
Future Of Work: Do we need a new regulation?
As more and more people take on non-standard forms of work, we face new challenges: ...
Future Of Work: Human work behind AI?
Do you know about all the manual work behind AI? Ghost workers are people that ...
Smart Cities: A realistic initiative?
Lack of water and tough weather conditions. How will this new Smart City project tackle ...
Smart Cities: What are the risks?
Smart Cities offer us optimised flexibility in managing consumption. Is adopting this model the solution ...
Future of Work: The rise of digital labour platforms?
What are the real benefits and disadvantages of the use of labour platforms?
Future Of Work: An evolution in digital labour policies?
Is the recent evolution of conditions for digital platform workers meeting the standards? Are the ...
Circular Economy: How is technology changing energy consumption?
Developing a circular economy is mandatory given the current state of the environment. How can ...
Circular Economy: Who’s leading the change?
Most cities are still using fossil fuels to power themselves. Is there a city leading ...
Smart Cities: The cities of the future?
Smart cities provide us with an idea of how cities might look in 50 years’ ...
Smart Cities: An efficient and sustainable answer?
We are increasingly consuming more energy. How might a Smart City help us achieve greater ...
Circular Economy: Can tech fight against climate change?
Global warming is not just an environmental disaster, but a social and ethical issue. How ...
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Facial Recognition: Do we need to restrict it before it’s too late?
Facial recognition offers us a range of possibilities to make our lives easier. However, it ...
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Facial Recognition: Is it going too far?
In countries like China, Facial Recognition systems pose major ethical risks. Is trading our data ...
Circular Economy: what is it and how can we transition?
Technology is key to the Circular Economy. Emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence can help solve ...
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Facial recognition: what are the ethical risks?
Facial recognition systems may not pose an obvious threat, but there are noticeable ethical risks ...
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Facial recognition: how does it work?
Facial recognition technology is used on our streets, at airports, in shops… even in our ...
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Deepfakes: How can deepfake technology be used in a safer way?
Does the rise of deepfake technology mean the start of an era of total distrust? ...
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Deepfakes: What are they and how do they work?
Sending a nationwide emergency, destroying someone’s relationship or swaying an election… all these things can ...
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Deepfakes: What are the ethical risks of deepfakes?
Does the rise of deepfake technology mean the start of an era of total distrust? ...
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Deepfakes: Deepfakes in California: why have they been banned?
A fake video of US House speaker Nancy Pelosi, apparently drunk, went viral in early ...
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Deepfakes in California: why have they been banned?
A fake video of US House speaker Nancy Pelosi, apparently drunk, went viral in early ...
Diversity and Inclusion: Is gender equality present in technology?
If we want a future society where algorithms and artificial intelligence benefits all of us, ...
Diversity and Inclusion: Is your computer judging you?
When algorithms and artificial intelligence systems have only been designed by white men, how can ...
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Surveillance: “Aadhaar” the most complete biometric database in the world
In 2009, India began implementing the “Aadhaar” system. What was initially considered a project to ...
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Data ethics: Dangerously comfortable, or safely uncomfortable?
We often ask companies that harvest and store our data to be transparent, and to ...
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Data ethics: Concerns about ethics in large tech companies
Every time we use our mobile devices or access the internet, our data is collected ...
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Data dividend: Is data the new oil?
Every time we use a connected device or surf the internet, our data is collected ...
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Data dividend: How much is your personal data worth?
Should we accept monetary compensation for data that we now provide for free? Understandably, the ...
Future of work: Is there a place for universal basic income?
The arrival of a gig economy, the automation of routine and not so routine tasks ...
Future of work: From one job to multiple
Experts predict a future full of changes. Our time and professional tasks, for example, will ...
Sandbox: Why do some countries utilize sandboxes while others do not?
The United Kingdom, a pioneer in the use of Sandboxes, has been working with the ...
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Surveillance: security at what cost?
The connected city was designed to be efficient, safe and life-enhancing for all its inhabitants. ...
Sandbox: A custom-made place to regulate and innovate
Given the difficulty of regulators to adapt to new developments before they are implemented in ...
The digital gap: The digital disparity is on course to “disconnect the disconnected” even more
The digital divide separates people at the local level, too. New regulations created to upgrade ...
The digital gap: Is the internet a tool to help make the world more sustainable and just?
Can the internet make the world more fair and sustainable? The UN has been talking ...
Regulatory framework: Why do big tech companies need to be regulated?
Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech companies have been asking policymakers for clearly defined guidelines for years. ...
Regulatory framework: Should innovators and regulators work together?
Real revolutions are not predictable, that’s why they’re game-changers. But how can we empower innovators to ...
E-government: Are digital and traditional voting compatible?
Instant purchasing, instant rating, instant consuming. In today’s time, all seems to be impulsive. Do ...
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E-government: challenges and opportunities of digital voting
In convulsive electoral times, many citizens ask themselves why it is not easier to exercise ...